Closed Circle Lives!
After vowing never to darken the door of one of our software security providers again, and reinstalling every single product code 62 times—we have a counter—we are live! If you meet the “Come Back Again” sign, hit the ‘refresh’ button on your browser and reality should reveal itself.
Browse! Enjoy!
We did it!
Sign on door says Come back again!
Hit the browser Refresh button! It is open.
Have refreshed (twice) and even closed my browser and come back in, but all I’m getting is the “Open soon, come back and visit!” sign. SIGH….
Oh, dear! Time for a conference with Jane.
If you are running Internet Explorer try ctrl-F5 when you are at the page to force a hard refresh which should reload the page from scratch
Hope it works!
Ready, we’ve got links scattered all over. WHich link are you using? Where on the page?
The absolute URL is http://www.closed-circle.net See if that works.
Works fine for me. (I’ve not actually tried to buy anything as I already have all the books – but I can get into the store no problem.)
Found a glitch, my Firefox browser is not seeing the open door at the Closed Circle store. When I use the detestable MS IE I can get in just dandy…. Also, the place to put the name to receive a donation doesn’t seem to be working. I’ll try later.
I was using the correct link, and then went from the link in the Closed Circle Websites portion of your page. It goes to the closed-circle.net site, but all I get is the door sign unless I use IE. With IE, no problems, and I have managed to purchase some swag… Luckily, this is not the end of the world, but only a beginning.
I’ve finally managed to get all the store front stuff ironed out. Cancel all after YAAH!!!! And the problem with designating the donation recipient was attributable to operator headspace.
Congratulations! A momentous occasion, I’m happy for all three of you!
It works fine for me (after one refresh of the home page) — Mac w/ Safari.
Shopping cart and paypal process is smooth, got my email right away, and the download was nice and quick !
congrats and thanks, looking forward to more !
The site looks awesome! I have only one very minor critique, the Books Galore sneak peek goes a little too fast to really see the book, perhaps even jsut one more second on there would help us see the title before it breaks up.
Anyway, it looks really great, with nice touches of commentary on most pages. I really like it!
Easy to do. I’ll go slow it up a bit. We do hope people will enjoy poking around. It won’t be updated like the blogs, but we hope to keep adding books slowly.
Only the mobi reader (.prc) version is showing the book coversis showing the book covers. My e-reader (.lit) on this computer sees the files just fine and I can read them but no cover is available. CJ, your ereader file has corrupted text scattered throughout and the .rtf file has question marks instead of quotes or double quotes. I’m happy because I can read it on my computer mobireader just fine.
Now do bear in mind that not every file in that 11-format job will work on every reader: most are tailored only for one. If you give it other formats it may read them—sorta—but have strange manifestations.
But if your reader IS supposed to read a certain file, we want to know about glitches. We may need to break out the .txt file, for instance, and run a special operation on that particular file.
SO here’s a breakdown of what’s reported above: and bear with us: it’s a learning curve, and we will get these things fixed and get you a special file, either by re-download or by just e-mailing you a cleaned-up file, depending on how many instances we have reported. I’m going to keep a running tally, so speak up if you’re seeing something odd in your reader display!
To help us, please tell us your OS and type of computer, if using a computer; or your file type and reader brand/model if you are having difficulty with a reader. We don’t own a reader, so we have to figure this out long-distance.
RE TXT: So we know (and should not be surprised, I suppose) that .txt and special characters do not play nicely. We will see if we can go back to html and run a fix at that level for .txt use. All these things are procedures we need to build into the ‘manufacture’ of the book. TXT is clearly one we have to do, because it does strip codes. .Txt will never display the covers, because .txt can’t, incidentally; but it should not be replacing curly-quotes with question marks.
RE LIT. I would have thought .lit would get covers. Is anybody else with .lit having that problem?
Note: on some readers, you have to aggressively backspace at the start to get the cover to show up.But if you HAVE no cover, that’s another problem.
Well done, a mega effort on your part so thank you all!
I have downloaded my Faery Moon, but I’m going to be good and get some sleep before I try to make sure I’ve not messed it up in some way.
And please convey my compliments to the chef!
It worked for me the first time and I ordered something. Woo!
Woo Hoo.
time to celebrate.
great! it worked for me first time. I’ll be back later to buy faery moon.
Oh frabjous day! 😆 Caloo! 😆 Calay 😆 Much gyring and gimbling in the wabe! 😆 I’m in after hitting refresh once! Great work all! THANK-YOU!!! :woot:
Oh no! Not the hated IE! I detest the ‘Bing’ thing! It inserts words into the ‘search space
while I’m trying to type what I want. MSN calls
it intuitive,I call it an interfering #@^+#@! I’ll try my Firefox (thank you ready4more,that
explains the sign everytime I tried)and only with
great reluctance try IE.